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Unshape

Unshape \Un*shape\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + shape.] To deprive of shape, or of proper shape; to disorder; to confound; to derange. [R.]
--Shak.

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unshape

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To deprive of shape; throw out of form or into disorder. 2 (context transitive English) To confound; derange.

Usage examples of "unshape".

SPIRIT OF THE PITIES Yet I may wake and understand Ere Earth unshape, know all things, and With knowledge use a painless hand, A painless hand!

Deeper than all the rest was still another feeling, which had hardly risen into the region of inwardly articulated thought, but lay unshaped beneath all the syllabled trains of sleeping or waking consciousness.

His hollow aching did not explain itself in words, but it grumbled and worried down among the unshaped thoughts which lie beneath them.

He was dead, but she had as yet unshaped plans for digging into him like a xenologist into a city mound.

Rarely did she have a chance to overhear when people spoke words unshaped by their concern about what she might hear.

Sometimes they even took unshaped rocks with them to make into tools later on.

Now he was the smoke, Rey was, the thing in the air, vaporous, drifting into every space sooner or later, unshaped, but with a face that was somehow part of the presence, specific to the prowling man.

He slipped it on, running one hand down the unshaped lapel just for the feeling of the heavy silk under his touch, and left the room.

He was wearing a hsaie greatcoat over plain shirt and trousers, a sweep of unshaped river-green brocade that set off the weathered ivory of his skin.

Here most of the people, men and women, wore either the full-skirted, nip-waisted coats or loose, unshaped wraps of some silky fabric that seemed to float in the air around them, trailing strange perfumes.

Driving down to Southampton by the night-coach, her tenderness toward Henrietta held other thoughts unshaped, except one, that moved in its twilight, murmuring of how the love of pleasure keeps us blind children.